Wales must 'keep pace with IT demand'

The first 30 students at Wales' national software academy have started a degree course aimed at filling some of the hundreds of vacancies in the technology industry.

The three-year course in Applied Software Engineering from Cardiff University and based in Newport is the first of its kind in the UK.

It aims to make graduates "work ready".

More than 10% of the 5,500 staff at the driver licensing agency DVLA in Swansea are IT professionals.

Emma Ley-Davies of DVLA told BBC Wales economics correspondent Sarah Dickins that software engineers were "incredibly important" and they were up against other organisations for the right calibre of people.